Colbert interviews Dan Sinker, the journalism professor behind @MayorEmanuel — "time vortexes are funny things"; the whole thing needs to go to print (via) #

Windows 7's Microsoft Paint executable interpreted as audio — surprisingly listenable (via) #

TIME's video feature on the indie gaming scene — nice trend piece interviews the people behind Babycastles, Area/Code, and Osmos #

Thanks for Trumpet Winsock — used the essential Windows app in the mid '90s? make it right by paying for it now #

Lanyrd adds Firefox/Chrome extensions to see SXSW sessions in Twitter — hey, that guy in the second screenshot looks familiar #

Lag — an animated tale of high latency (via) #

Anatomy of a Crushing — Maciej's entertaining postmortem of the mini-exodus from Delicious to Pinboard (via) #

Slipstream, Chrome addon hides tweets by user or keyword — not going to SXSW? you're going to need this (via) #

URL Hunter — experimental game played in the browser's location bar (via) #

Foursquare releasing 3.0 for iPhone/Android tonight — now with recommendations, an overhauled leaderboard, and new ways to explore #

Tinted Sheen, browser blocker for Chrome and Firefox — block all references to you-know-who #

Adobe's Wallaby, experimental converter from Flash to HTML5 — for Webkit browsers only; before and after (via) #

Koalas to the Max — built with d3.js #

d3.js, Javascript library for manipulating data-driven documents — some of the examples are jaw-dropping #

The Million Song Dataset — massive data dump from Echonest and Musicbrainz; this is begging for some large-scale infoviz #

moviebarcode — expanding on Jason Salavon's film averaging (via) #

The IF Theory Reader — free book collects thought-provoking writing about interactive fiction (via) #

Auto-Tune the News takes on Charlie Sheen — last two links about him ever, honest: NYT gets meta and, importantly, his history of violence against women #

You Are Listening to Los Angeles — ambient music meets LAPD police scanner (via) #

Yu Suzuki reveals how Shenmue was meant to end — Gamasutra has a post-GDC writeup of his Shenmue postmortem; also: the Another World, Marble Madness, Cave Story and Maniac Mansion postmortems #

Bluetooth fingerless glove lets you talk to your hand — reminds me of SixthSense's feature to snap photos by making a frame with your fingers (via) #

TED video of Anthony Atala printing a human kidney — starts at the 9:20 mark #

Jacob Gilbreath's kinetic type treatment of Conan's farewell message — expertly done student project (via) #

Digitalkoot — Captcha-like games help digitize Finland's National Library archives as you play #

Bestselling Kindle author Amanda Hocking on reproducing her success — "This is literally years of work you're seeing. And hours and hours of work each day." #

Black history charts from 1900 — hand-drawn by students from W.E.B. Du Bois' sociology class, they look like modern infographics (via) #

Situationist — iPhone app by Benrik creates serendipitous encounters with strangers #

FUCK YEAH NOUNS  #

Play against the NYT's Rock Paper Scissors robot — with a sneak peek into what the computer thinks you'll do next #

Reddit interviews a 4-year-old boy — the dad did the same thing last year; it's like the Internet's version of the Up series #

Make TV profile on kinetic wave sculptor Reuben Margolin — related: the work of Theo Jansen #

37 Signals' Jason Fried on how to make money — a quick dip into Jason's psyche in six personal anecdotes #

Help Archive Team save Yahoo! Video — 7TB saved so far, they need geeks with bandwidth/storage and cash for hard drives ASAP #

Tissue engineer prints a new kidney on TED stage — also: self-driving cars; this week, the future is in Long Beach #

Marble Run, collaborative HTML5 marble game — winner of the Mozilla Labs gaming contest, with code on Github (via) #

Reddit interviews Ken Jennings — "I can't go anywhere in public where there might be old people, like Hallmark stores or cemeteries." #

Gina Trapani on the case against drop-down identities — related: the controversy over making gender a text field in Diaspora #

Warner Bros. acquires Blade Runner prequel/sequel rights — there should be a law forbidding sequels to universally-loved 30-year-old films #

Full Text RSS Feed — build a full feed for sites that only provide excerpts (via) #

The Double Slit Experiment in Minecraft — is the chicken a particle or a wave? (via) #

Snapshots from a rock n' roll marriage — achingly personal story of the breakup of a Black Keys' marriage (via) #

Installing every version of Windows from 1.0 to Windows 7, in order — surprisingly entertaining, window colors were retained from Windows 2.0 to Windows 2000 #

Esquire's profile of Ray Towler, a Cleveland man wrongly convicted to 30 years in prison — no amount of money can make this right (via) #

Apple introduces iPad 2 — thinner than an iPhone 4, 9x faster, two cameras, cover, same battery life, same price #

Mitoza, surreal web toy — then the evil eggplant opened an ice cream store inside of the giant egg... #

placekitten — your source for placeholder images of kittens #

Thom Yorke Smashes Dead Fish on Washer-Dryer — "sorry.? I like farts a lot. I'm from the fart generation." (via) #

Lanyrd's Guide to SXSW Interactive — I'm putting on Worst Website Ever again this year with an amazing lineup #

Sheen Family Circus — bi-winning #

Charlie Sheen on Good Morning America — he has tiger blood running through his veins (via) #